Services in the Presteigne Group of Parishes on Sunday 7 September (Trinity 12) are as follows:9.30 Holy Communion (Common Worship: contemporary language) Lingen11.00 Holy Communion (Common Worship: contemporary language) PresteigneEveryone is very welcome to attend either of these services.
We have just one service in the Presteigne Group of Parishes on Sunday 31 August (Trinity 11)11.00 Songs of Praise PresteigneEveryone is welcome to join us for this informal service when we will have a chance to sing a variety of hymns and worship songs, in both traditional and modern style.If you are unable to join us in person, you can find the Collect and Gospel for the day, to use with the Short Servioce for Use at Home in the season of Trinity provided earlier this year, elsewhere on this page.
We have just one service in the Presteigne Group of Parishes this Sunday. 24 August (Trinity 10): 11 am Festival Eucharist PresteigneEveryone is most welcome to join us for the annual Presteigne Festival Service, when the music will be led by the chamber choir Bath Camerata, conducted by Robert Brooks, with organist Edward Kemp-Luck. The music will include a new setting of Ave Maria by Kerensa Briggs, Jonathan Dove’s Missa Brevis, and the anthem and the swallow, a setting of some sentences from Psalm 84 by Caroline Shaw. Our guest preacher will be the Archdeacon of Ludlow, the Venerable Dr Fiona Gibson.If you are unable to join us in person, you can find the Collect and a Reading for the day elsewhere on this page.
Services in the Presteigne Group of Parishes on Sunday 17 August (Trinity 9) are as follows:11.00 Morning Service (Common Worship: contemporary language) PresteigneThis will be a special service to mark the 80th anniversary of VJ Day6.30 Choral Evensong (Book of Common Prayer: traditional language) LingenThe Choir of St Andrew’s will visit St Michael and All Angels, Lingen to lead the music at this quiet early evening service.If you are unable to join us in person for either of our services, you can find the Collect and Gospel Reading for the ninth Sunday of Trinity elsewhere on this page. You can also download a copy of the VJ80 service that we will be using at St Andrew's in the morning to read at home.PHOTO: Two airmen, one American and one British, climbed a traffic light in Piccadilly Circus, London, to celebrate the news of the end of the Second World War, after Japan surrendered on 10 August 1945. [CREDIT: Imperial War Museum IWR EA 758 93]